Specification of a Universal Remote Control for Interaction in Residential Environments

Today, several advances are taking place in the area of Ambient Intelligent (AmIs), providing convenience and facilities to different profiles of people. With the increased use of mobile devices is likely to use this technology to assist in the interaction of AmIs users with existing devices in these scenarios. In this study, we proposed a platform structured in three layers: (i) interaction, using a mobile application with the function of a universal control; (ii) processing, specified as a manager of the actions on ambient; and (iii) actuators, represented by micro controllers connected to the electronic devices from the environment. For a platform preliminary validation were conducted some tests with volunteers and are presents usability results.